Proverbs 1:17

KJV1611 – Modern English

Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 35:11 : 11 Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of heaven?
  • Prov 7:23 : 23 Until a dart strikes through his liver; as a bird hastes to the snare, and does not know that it is for his life.
  • Isa 1:3 : 3 The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib: but Israel does not know, my people do not consider.
  • Jer 8:7 : 7 Yes, the stork in the heaven knows her appointed times; and the turtle dove, the crane, and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people do not know the judgment of the LORD.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 1:18-19
    2 verses
    80%

    18And they lie in wait for their own blood; they lurk secretly for their own lives.

    19So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain; it takes away the life of its owners.

  • Prov 1:15-16
    2 verses
    80%

    15My son, do not walk in the way with them, hold back your foot from their path;

    16For their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.

  • Hab 1:15-17
    3 verses
    78%

    15They take up all of them with a hook, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their dragnet; therefore they rejoice and are glad.

    16Therefore they sacrifice to their net, and burn incense to their dragnet; because by them their portion is sumptuous and their food plentiful.

    17Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?

  • Amos 3:5
    77%

    5Can a bird fall into a snare upon the earth, where no trap is set for it? Shall one take up a snare from the earth, and have taken nothing at all?

  • Jer 5:26-27
    2 verses
    76%

    26For among my people are found wicked men: they lay in wait, as he who sets snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

    27As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they have become great, and grown rich.

  • Job 18:10
    76%

    10The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.

  • Ps 35:7-8
    2 verses
    76%

    7For without cause they have hidden their net for me in a pit, which they have dug without cause for my soul.

    8Let destruction come upon him unexpectedly, and let his net that he has hidden catch himself; into that very destruction let him fall.

  • Job 18:8
    75%

    8For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks upon a snare.

  • Ps 9:15
    74%

    15The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made; in the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.

  • Prov 1:11
    74%

    11If they say, "Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;

  • Mic 7:2
    73%

    2The good man has perished from the earth, and there is no one upright among men; they all lie in wait for blood, they hunt each his brother with a net.

  • Rom 3:15-16
    2 verses
    73%

    15'Their feet are swift to shed blood:'

    16'Destruction and misery are in their ways:'

  • Isa 29:21
    73%

    21That make a man an offender by a word, and lay a snare for him that reproves in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nothing.

  • Prov 7:23
    73%

    23Until a dart strikes through his liver; as a bird hastes to the snare, and does not know that it is for his life.

  • Eccl 9:12
    73%

    12For man also does not know his time: as the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in a snare, so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly upon them.

  • Prov 6:5
    73%

    5Deliver yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, and like a bird from the hand of the fowler.

  • Ps 10:9
    73%

    9He lies in wait secretly, as a lion in his den; he lies in wait to catch the poor; he catches the poor when he draws him into his net.

  • Isa 59:6-7
    2 verses
    73%

    6Their webs will not become garments, nor will they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.

    7Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; devastation and destruction are in their paths.

  • Ps 141:9
    72%

    9Keep me from the snares they have laid for me, and the traps of the workers of iniquity.

  • Jer 17:11
    72%

    11As the partridge sits on eggs, and hatches them not; so he that gets riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.

  • Hab 2:9
    72%

    9Woe to him who covets an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!

  • Ps 37:32
    72%

    32The wicked watch the righteous, and seek to slay him.

  • Ps 11:2
    72%

    2For behold, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, to secretly shoot at the upright in heart.

  • Job 28:7
    72%

    7There is a path that no bird knows, and the vulture's eye has not seen:

  • Ps 140:5
    72%

    5The proud have hidden a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set traps for me. Selah.

  • Ps 57:6
    72%

    6They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down; they have dug a pit before me; into the midst of it they have fallen themselves. Selah.

  • Prov 29:5
    72%

    5A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.

  • Prov 24:15
    71%

    15Do not lie in wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; do not spoil his resting place.

  • Ps 37:14
    71%

    14The wicked have drawn the sword and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay those who are of upright conduct.

  • Ps 39:6
    71%

    6Surely every man walks in a vain show: surely they are troubled in vain: he heaps up riches, and does not know who shall gather them.

  • Isa 59:4
    71%

    4No one calls for justice, nor does anyone plead for truth: they trust in vanity and speak lies; they conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity.

  • Ps 17:11
    71%

    11They have now surrounded us in our steps; they have set their eyes, bending down to the earth.

  • Prov 21:7
    71%

    7The robbery of the wicked will destroy them, because they refuse to do justice.

  • Prov 26:2
    71%

    2As the bird by wandering, and the swallow by flying, so a cause-less curse shall not come.

  • Job 22:10
    71%

    10Therefore snares are all around you, and sudden fear troubles you;

  • Prov 12:12
    71%

    12The wicked desires the catch of evil men, but the root of the righteous yields fruit.

  • Isa 19:8
    70%

    8The fishermen also shall mourn, and all who cast hooks into the brooks shall lament, and those who spread nets upon the waters shall languish.

  • Hos 7:12
    70%

    12When they go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down like the birds of the sky; I will chastise them, as their congregation has heard.

  • Ezek 32:3
    70%

    3Thus says the Lord GOD; I will therefore spread my net over you with a company of many people; and they shall bring you up in my net.

  • Jer 16:17
    70%

    17For my eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from my face, nor is their iniquity hidden from my eyes.

  • Lam 4:19
    70%

    19Our persecutors were swifter than the eagles of the sky; they pursued us on the mountains, they lay in wait for us in the wilderness.

  • Prov 23:5
    70%

    5Will you set your eyes on that which is not? For riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.